Tag: Hydrology and Land Surface Processes

ESSIC associate professor Sujay Kaushal is the lead author of a new study about increasing salt in North American waterways. Land-based salt use, such as on farms and roads, runs into natural waters, threatening ecosystems and drinking water supplies. The new study, published in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, uses data from the past 50 years to indicate significant increases in freshwater salinity and pH. It is the first to reveal long-term changes. …

ESSIC researchers Amy McNally (NASA / GSFC 617), Hiroko Beaudoing (NASA / GSFC 617) and Augusto Getirana (NASA / GSFC 617) traveled to Cairo, Egypt for “NASA Land Information System workshop for Egyptian applications” along with collaborators Ben Zaitchik and Hamada Badr from Johns Hopkins University.  The workshop was hosted by the National Administration for Remote Sensing and Space (NARSS) and participants included the Arab Water Council, and Egyptian Meteorological …

Patricia Lawston, an ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate, was recently in the journal “Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.” The research is titled “Assessment of irrigation physics in a land surface modeling framework using non-traditional and human-practice datasets, Hydrol.” It develops a realistic representation of irrigation in order to better understand land-atmosphere interactions in agricultural areas. Lawston also participated in the Soil Moisture Active …

ESSIC research professor and CICS-MD Director E. Hugo Berbery has been selected by the Argentine Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation as a recipient of  the agency’s  RAICES Award for International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation. This award is presented to researchers living abroad who encourage cooperation to improve the scientific and technological abilities of Argentina. The Argentine minister of this department will present the award to Berbery on …